Excerpt from A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island: Including a History of Other Episcopal Churches in the State

This somewhat high-sounding phrase was not the term employed by Dr. Macsparran in his will, but appears to have been introduced into the Parish Register by his sue cessor, who, in recording the disposition of the Doétor' s farm, adds, in his characteristic style: The Whole of which was Originally Designed and Bequeathed To A cm' Rsvsnmo d1ocssan, in Case One of that Holy and Ever To be Revered order should Come to ame rica. It is noticeable that, as soon as the S. P. G. Was founded, its missionaries in America began to take the initiative for the introduction of resident bishops. Dr. Thomas Bray, one of the original promoters of the So ciety, and the Rev. John Talbot, later one of the non juring bishops, advocated the cause in 1701 and 1702. In 1 707, the Rev. Evan Evans, sent to Philadelphia by the Bishop of London in 1700, in a letter on The State of the Church in Pennsylvania, brought out some new points upon the need of episcopal authority in the colonies. In 1 713, the ministers and wardens of the church in Boston, acting under the inspiration of Gov ernor Nicholson, petitioned the Society and sent an address to Clueca Anne upon the subjeél, there being records of simultaneous petitions of the same nature from New York and Rhode Island. In 1718, an ad dress upon the grievances resulting from the lack of the episcopate was sent by the vestries of Christ's Church, Philadelphia, and St. Ann's, Burlington, and others to the archbishops and bishops of the Church of England.

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